Yes, trial and error seems to be the way here!....Never mind...

My original code had lots of different modules so I was thinking that the stack size needed to be quite high. Then, as so often is the way with Perl, I found that as I increased the number of threads the more randomly the program crashed. I've ran into so many thread-unsafe (or perhaps thread-unsure!) modules that a lot of my code is now system calls out to Unix command line utilities that do the same thing.

Yes, performance takes a hit but, in this case at least, I'm more interested in running many slow running processes concurrently so it's not all bad....

Thanks for your reply!

fx, Infinity is Colourless

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